CHERRIE: ORNITHOLOGY Of THE ORINOCO REGION. 3!! 



collected at Altagracia in November, and a male was taken at Neri- 

 cagua, on the upper river, in April. 



COCCYZUS EULERI Cabanis. 

 Coccyzus euleri Cabanis, Journ. f. Orn. 1873. p. 73. (ex Cantagallo). 



Two specimens were taken, both females, that differed slightly in 

 the colors of the bill, eye-lids, etc. The first, collected at Ciudad 

 Bolivar, April 15, 1905 (No. 13443 Geo. K. Cherrie Coll.) had the eye 

 seal brown, eye-lids lemon yellow; bill above black with basal cutting 

 edges olive yellow, mandible chrome yellow with blackish tip; feet 

 dusky slate grey. 



The second collected at Caicara, June 10, 1905 (No. 13856 Geo. 

 K. Cherrie Coll.) had the eye seal brown, eye-lids blackish; maxilla, and 

 extreme tip of mandible black, with basal cutting edges of maxilla, to a 

 line bordering the lower edge of the nostrils and extending nearly one- 

 half way to the tip, and mandible orange-buff; feet dusky slate grey. 



The ovaries of the latter bird were much enlarged, indicating the 

 near approach of the breeding season. My attention was drawn to 

 this bird by hearing the familiar "rain crow's" note. It is in what I 

 believe to be full nuptial plumage a delicate pearl grey on breast, 

 sides and flanks, shading to an almost silvery white on the belly. 



C. euleri is at once distinguished from C. americanus by the 

 entire absence of rufous on both the outer and inner webs of the wing 

 quills and the darker general color above. This species has not been 

 previously recorded from Venezuela. 



COCCYZUS MELACORYPHUS Vieillot. 

 Coccysus melacoryphus Vieill., Nouv. Diet. VIII. 1817. p. 271 ; Berlepsch 



& Hartert, p. 97. 



On my first expedition this species was observed only once, a 

 single specimen having been collected at Quiribana de Caicara April 

 28, 1898. It was not seen in 1905, but in 1907 two were collected at 

 Caicara in June ; and at Las Barrancas (in the Delta region) it was 

 common during July. 



One of the specimens collected at Las Barrancas seems some- 

 what abnormally colored, or may possibly represent another race. 

 Below, it is exactly similar to typical examples of C. melacoryphus; 

 above, the back is also similar, but the wings are decidedly different, 

 the quills being dull rufous brownish on both webs, except the tips 



